4.6 • 17.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2015
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Enjoy the teaser sample! Full episode coming in a few days. 2.5 hours of stories and impromptu performances in Jamie's studio, digging into acting, music, comedy, hustling, parenting, and much more. It blew my mind.
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0:00.0 | Hello boys and girls this is Tim Ferriss from Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferriss show. |
0:04.0 | If you hear some squeaking in the background, that's my puppy who is pleasure-wining chewing on a plush |
0:10.6 | corn on the cob. It looks like she's not going to perform for us. So that's okay because we have someone better. |
0:16.0 | We have Jamie Foxx, the one and only, the multi-talented polymath of entertainment. |
0:21.0 | You can hear the whining. That's how I feel on the inside because I'm so excited about this episode. |
0:27.0 | And this is a teaser. This particular episode is five minutes. You're going to get to hear a story about how he met P Diddy |
0:34.0 | and part of how he put together a $400 party to rival a million-dollar party that puffed that he put together. |
0:41.0 | You have some beef with Cosby, impersonations and some childhood stories, playing music at a Christmas party to overcome |
0:48.0 | racial tension among other things. We go everywhere with this. I don't want to spoil any surprises. |
0:53.0 | There's a lot more coming in just a few days. Two and a half hours with Jamie Foxx covering everything and many stories |
0:59.0 | known as ever heard. And it was a blast. So here's a taste, a little morsel to weight your appetite for things to come. |
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1:46.0 | So please enjoy the short teaser. And in a few days, you will get the two and a half hour. |
1:52.0 | Wem bam. Thank you, Van Dam, version of the full interview. So as always, thank you for listening. |
2:00.0 | I would follow Puffy Combs around back in the day when it was just like puff and J. Low and not. And back at that time, |
2:10.0 | no one could get into his parties. But the reason he would let me in because I would carry a camera with me every |
2:14.4 | hour ago. And so I couldn't get into all the parties because Puffy was so big, like he come to LA, we couldn't even get in our own clubs. |
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